AGORAPHOBIA—A REMEDY.

Exhibition of New Remedy

seem to irritate, and might in that respect be considered a liquid vaseline, but purer. It was especially useful after alkaline baths in psoriasis. In the Practitioner for June there appeared an account by Dr Eoberts of Chester of forty-two cases in which he had employed this oil, to which he gave the name Oleum Deelinae. It appeared to be palliative and soothing. It was cheap, quite odourless,...

The Expectation Remedy Revisited

Disgorgement as an Antitrust Remedy

My topic is an antitrust remedy that is legally available, enormously powerful, but seldom used—disgorgement. I want to ask what explains the rare usage of this remedy in antitrust cases and whether the reasons for its historic backstage status continue to apply today to dominant firm misconduct. More provocatively, given the growing obstacles to private and class action damage suits and the fr...

When Pretending Is the Remedy

Skeptical, Benjamin Franklin and French chemist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier simulated one of Mesmer’s typical sessions in 1784. They asked people suffering from ailments ranging from asthma to epilepsy to hug “magnetized” trees. The people swooned and shook, as expected. But then the researchers divulged that the trees were never magnetized. And everyone realized that something else was inducing ...

An obesity remedy for diabetes.

For obese patients with type 2 diabetes, surgery may be the best bet.